We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.